+1 And should remove middle-name / middle-initial. It's very bad.
Joseph On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Donald Eastlake <d3e...@gmail.com> wrote: > First/Last = bad/ambiguous > > Family (or maybe inherited) / Given = good > > Thanks, > Donald > ============================= > Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) > 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA > d3e...@gmail.com > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Cyrus Daboo <cy...@daboo.name> wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > > > > > --On July 11, 2013 at 3:58:10 PM +0200 Simon Perreault > > <simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca> wrote: > > > >>> We submitted two drafts to help people here to correctly call chinese > >>> people names: > >>> > >>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-deng-call-chinese-names-00 > >>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zcao-chinese-pronounce-00 > >> > >> > >> Very cool! Thanks for writing this! > >> > >> I have a question: I think I've seen Chinese names written in both > >> orders. That is, sometimes "Hui Deng" will be written "Deng Hui". Am I > >> right? Does this happen often? What is the most common order? Is there a > >> way to guess what order a name is written in? Sometimes it's not easy > >> for non-Sinophones to know which part is the given name and which part > >> is the family name. > > > > > > Well that actually brings up a good technical point! > > > > In iCalendar (RFC5545) we have properties to represent the organizer and > > attendee of meetings. A parameter (attribute) of those properties is > "CN" - > > defined to be the "common name" of the corresponding calendar user. > > Obviously that is a single string and typically the concatenation of > first > > name/last name. But that of course is a very "Western" approach. > > > > I have had several people request that iCalendar instead define new > > parameters for "FIRST-NAME" and "LAST-NAME". That then gives clients the > > option of re-ordering those for display purposes based on user locales > and > > preferences. > > > > So, from a technical standpoint, it seems better to always represent user > > names using components (last, first, middle)? vCard does have an "N" > > property where individual components of a name can be broken out. > > > > -- > > Cyrus Daboo > > >
